2017 election a “must win” for NDP

“The New Democratic Party has won three elections in 80 years so we have not got the best record.”

While the next provincial election is about a year and a half away the leader of the provincial NDP is already characterizing it as a must win.

John Horgan was asked if his party can afford another election loss.

“I don’t believe we can. That increases pressure on me to perform. It increases pressure on me to provide the best stable of candidates I possibly can that reflect the diversity and the dynamism of British Columbia. That is my goal over the next twelve months is to make sure I am recruiting people to my banner to make B.C. better and that is what I am going to do.”

Horgan says Christy Clark is a great campaigner but lousy at governing.

The NDP have not led a government since Gordon Campbell ended a decade of rule defeated then NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh in 2001 beginning 14 years and counting of BC Liberal governments.

That is the tell tale sign with the Radical Right movement, they have ruled us right into poverty with the spend, spend of debt and tax increase galore in user fees! 80year and 60%+ get the shaft after every election, time to wake up and smell the coffee, as the Radical Right race for power is to use elections and victory as an advanced personal business plan! trough eater’s anything going wrong it’s, remember the 90’s slogan and forget and the corruption and scandals of the last 15years to present!

If Horgan is going to have any chance of credibility with the mainstream voter …die hard commies like you are going to need to stifle. Your diatribes against the evil capitalists are such a spew of hate ante vitriol that you scare off everyone.

“ruled us right into poverty with the spend, spend of debt and tax increase” ? ? ?

Is that not what the Nutley Dipper Govt in Alberta is doing today Kennie?
The NDP charter reads like Karl Marx . . . they think we are still in the 20th Century . . . . as Socialist Europe collapses only a complete fool would want to try the insanity one more time . . . lol

We’re talking about the BC Liberal! Chris with your analogy we can add, the Ontario Liberals to really prove my point! You of the Radical Right are the dying breed with the arrogance and greed and selling it all our resources to government-owned foreign Company’s that take all of our raw resources at will with TFW’s and with, the BC Liberals blessing for the personal business opportunity for themselves at taxpayer’s expense(Tax cuts and credits to the wealthy) and they pay a pittance of what it’s worth! The president of the BC Liberal resigned with charges for deleting email in Ontario! We know that the Federals Liberals are not progressive they are Radical Right lite spend spend and all their friends get the gravy just like here in BC!

Ontario Lieberals Kennie did like Trudough .. . they RAN to the left of the NDP in the last election. They have created a poverty province in Ontario with their Green Initiative . . . destroyed 1/2 million jobs but the lame Ontario voters voted for MORE Pain.
BC Liberals are NOT the same party . . . they are center-right and BC is the ONLY Province today that is NOT in have-not status.
The NDP in Alberta are proving that they, like YOU, have absolutely NO Clue how to govern effectively. The NDP is a Joke!

Dale -left coast: There are 4 HAVE PROVINCES in Canada. B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland.
Shortly there will only be 3 as Alberta will be shifting to HAVE NOT because of the new NDP government policies.

Do yourself a favour then Don, vote BC Conservative. We are back and we WILL win at least 10 seats this time out. We don’t want the corrupt Liberals with the debt that has nearly doubled in four years. We don’t want the Carbon Tax and we don’t want Christy Clunk doing any more damage to BC.

Harper tried that and look what he got?Finally, one day you will all get what is coming and what you asked for and deserve! Nothing will get rid of the NDP, you have to run a tight coalition to keep in power bought and paid for by the wealthy, with the media in tow! you slag the BC Liberals. but vote for them anyway, that is as two-faced as you can get! Look where this is getting BC! Nowhere, but debt! lots of foreign Company’s-TFW’s are laughing all the way to the bank!

The readers church mouse KennyG/Ken280: First of all Ken, Murray says you are just a waste of space.
The NDP will lose the 2017 B.C. provincial election.
John Horgan will resign in 20147 to make way for a more qualified IDIOT.
April 19, 2016 will see your Manitoba NDP government lose the Manitoba provincial election.
The Alberta NDP provincial government will only be a one term government just like the NDP were in B.C., Ontario, and Nova Scotia.
Ken you are now an old fart too old to work on the site C project and 24/7 still trying to be the centre of attention what will never happen.
The NDP is finished all across the country. Very hard to find a smart NDP’er, but if there are any, their best chance is to step aside from the NDP party and start a new party. It cannot be you Ken, because you are a Green party supporter who backs the NDP, but still voted for the Liberals in the federal election. Enjoy your morning water pill and the blue pills that you told us that you are now taking.

With the Liberals and other enterprise parties I see Bridges, Highways, Trading, and the infrastruture it takes to be Positive. With the NDP I see civil servants, you know those over paid, over benefitted people who want more and more benefits,holidays,sick days stress?days and pissed off days

Blake . . . BC is the ONLY province in Canada in the black today . . . much of our prosperity is because of improved transportation infrastructure. Business is fleeing Vancouver, where Bike Lanes are the norm, for the suburbs.
But Don is correct . . . splitting the vote will guarantee an NDP surprise just like Alberta . . . and that is turning into a disaster !

Dale, do some digging. Don’t look only at Deficits, look at Debt. Your Liberals almost doubled BC’s debt and deferred debt, To borrow off of ChrisM’s comment. We don’t WANT your used car salesmen. Time for the Liberals to go. Take the liberal trash to the curb in 2017.

Was never impressed with Christy . . . thought Kevin Falcon would have been a great Premier but he got jobbed by the CTV dim-wit signing up members.
All that said . . . much of the long term debt is for infrastructure that is today making us prosperous. Like the South Fraser Way . . . getting truck traffic out of town quickly especially from the docks.
I believe Vancouver will become a bedroom community as business flees to the valley. But a second right-of-center party will create a huge problem going forward, like Canada in the 90s and Alberta today. A better solution might be for the right to infiltate the liberal party of BC and eventually change the name to BC Party! That is what the left did in Alberta to the PCs . . . .

I for one will NOT be voting for Christy Clark. She is NOT a leader and not of Premier quality. Too many lies and deceptions, too many broken promises and way too many vacations on the public dime. Christy is in it for Christy. She couldn’t care less about BC or its citizens. The liberals are border line criminal with the triple delete, wasted money on failed referendums and the many cost over-run pet projects….. there are just way too many failures to list.

I am not an NDP supporter by any means but I would hold my nose and vote for NDP just to get rid of the Liberals.We are over due for a major change at the top.

we are due for a change – the corruption and sleazy practices of the BC Liberals over the last 15 years will be talked about for years to come . For us to continue to vote these crooks in ..just to avoid the calamity that the Dippers would surely bring on ..is wrong. Lets get a right wing party with some new blood and integrity into Victoria

Dear John. 3 elections in 80 years is not really that bad. In fact, considering your party’s shadyness and incompetence, 3 election wins is rather flattering. Forget what WAC Bennett said about “NDP not being able to run a peanut stand” If a smart cookies like Jenny Kwan can convince us she did not know her luxury 5 star world-wind tour was on the backs of the homeless she can run any peanut stand you throw at her. Within your 3 short mandates, your party managed to waste a half billion dollars on ferries that could not sail in BC waters. However we did get 19 million dollars from a scrap dealer who sold them to the Campbell soup company who turned them into millions of soup cans …so not all was lost. Let’s not forget you also spend billions propping up failing companies in NDP strongholds that eventually went bankrupt. And if your party leaders were not forced to resigned over stealing bingo money from charities or accepting bargain basement home renovations they were apologizing for being Skytrain fare cheats. So turn that frown upside down John and don’t be so hard on yourself and have a Very Merry Christmas. Love Christy Clark.

As of today, Christy Clark’s best friend is Alberta premier Rachel Notley. Her report card in Alberta thus far is a complete failure. This alone is the major reason, that the B.C. NDP cannot win the 2017 provincial election.
Remember that Notley won the election on vote spitting that the readers church mouse, Ken280/KennyG says but never in public.
Remember Ken said that Notley only won 25 seats on the NDP name alone and the other 29 seats on vote splitting between the Wild Rose and the Conservatives.